Putting reading success within every students reach.
You can put reading success within
every students reach with Americas most successful reading program.
Reading Program A Beka Book offers a treasury of wholesome, character-building readers and a variety of teaching materials that reflect the very best in scholarship, Scriptural fidelity, design, and practicality. You can put reading success within every students reach with Americas most successful reading program.
God raised up A Beka Book, a Christian
textbook publisher affiliated with Pensacola Christian College, to provide Christian
schools with God-honoring, high-quality
textbooks and teaching aids. The hundreds of traditional Christian educational materials from A Beka Book have been developed and refined over a period of more than 55years in the classroomsof Pensacola Christian Academy, one of Americas largest and most respected Christian day schools. A BekaBook materialsarebuilt upon a foundation of Scriptural truth and are written by dedicated and talented Christian scholars well-grounded in the practical aspects of classroom teaching.
A Beka Book gives you acomprehen
sive, quality reading program that is extraordinarily effective. 2
The children who are learning to
read with this program are certainly blessed and will profit from this firm educational background for the rest of their lives.
Rudolf Flesch (19111986)
Noted author of Why Johnny Cant Read
A Beka R not only focuses on Christ, but weaves
godly values, morals, principles, and quotations into every page! California
Turn your students into eager readers
The A Beka Book Reading
Program uses fascinating stories that spark interest while
building students character, skills, and understanding. The result is highly motivated, confident students who delight in the amount and variety of Scripturally sound literature available to them. Delightful classics and poetry, as well as stories and childrens novels, give students insight into their culture and their world while presenting Christian ideals and spiritual values. Colorful illustrations instruct, inspire, and spark the imagination. Students also read the Bible as a regular part of their reading instruction, and because of the outstanding reading instruction, they are able to read the Bible accurately and with understanding from a very early age.
Complete Coverage of Essential Skills
Comprehension
Comprehension skills increase in direct proportion to how much reading
they do. In the pamphlet What Works, the U.S. Department of Education stated, Children improve their reading ability by reading a lot. Reading achievement is directly related to the amount of reading children do in school and outside. Unlike using workbooks and performing computer drills, reading books gives children practice in the whole act of reading, that is, both in discovering the meaning of individual words and in grasping the meaning of an entire story.
Vocabular y
The purpose of vocabulary study is to enlarge the students speaking and
listening vocabulary, to aid in his reading comprehension, and to help him develop an interest in and an appreciation for words. With the A Beka Book Reading Program, challenging, new words for each story are listed in the student book or in the teachers material. This vocabulary is thoroughly taught before students commence reading. Suggestions for practice with dictionary skills are given in the Curriculum Guides and Teacher Editions.
Attention to individual differences
In kindergarten through second grade, students are grouped to meet their
individual reading needs. The needs of slower learners and higher achievers are provided for with activities, special teaching strategies, and practice within groups. Reduced versions of instructional charts are available for use with smaller groups. Materials are available to help older students who missed out on early phonics training and thus are having difficulty reading.
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by emphasizing word-analysis and comprehension skills. By the end of first grade, all students can read with comprehension and write with understanding.
Language 1 and Language 2 provide first and second
graders with a wide variety of silent reading activities designed to increase their reading comprehension skills, give them practice with decoding words, and encourage their ability to write creatively. The history, science, and health books for all grades also promote reading comprehension.
Reading comprehension is emphasized
throughout the series and is the focus of the Reading Skill Sheets for grades 36 and the Speed and Comprehension Readers for grades 46. Comprehension questions in the student readers or in the Teacher Edition call for students to summarize, reason, recall details, analyze words, understand concepts, or exercise their imaginations. Guided discussion provides students an opportunity to extend their thinking skills and apply their learning to other situations. Teachers who use discussion wisely can help children cultivate right thinking and attitudes that are based upon Scriptural truth. Skill Sheets (grades 36) are timed reading exercises followed by a comprehension quiz designed to teach students to recall information, notice implications, and use reasoning skills, as well as to enlarge students reading interests. Students are challenged to develop their reading speed and power of comprehension. The Speed and Comprehension Readers Adventures in Other Lands (4), Adventures in Nature (5), and Adventures in Greatness (6) provide short, challenging, interesting selections that help students learn to read quickly for information, with a strong emphasis on comprehension skills.
I have seen all three of my children become introduced to reading
with the A Beka R system. Inever before would have thought learning to read could come so easily! Placing our children again in a school using your curriculum is our best assurance of finding continuity when moving from place toplace. Parent Virginia
Intensive phonics approach to reading
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been a success story nationwide for many years because it uses a superior phonics approach to beginning reading. This is an intensive phon ics program, not just a sight reading program garnished with phonics. The intensive phonics approach is taught systematically throughout the kindergarten and lower elementary curriculum to ensure continued growth in skills. Even though research continues to expose the deficiencies of the sight-memory method of teaching beginning reading, almost all reading programs today still use the sight-memory, or whole language approach. By adding a bit of phonics here and there, many of these programs give the appearance of phonics, but not the results. With an intensive phonics approach, even lower-ability students can learn to read successfully. A Beka Book phonics teaches beginning students the short sounds of the vowels and then how to blend these sounds with a consonant. In a short time, students are able to read the hundreds of one-syllable words which have short vowel sounds. This allows students to feel a sense of accomplishment from the very beginning. Once they have mastered the simple words, they learn more sounds and longer words. From the very beginning, phonics skills are applied in meaningful, characterbuilding stories that correlate with the
phonics concepts as they are learned. This program
builds enthusiasm in parents and students and further helps to motivate students in learning with genuine, early achievement in reading. Phonics skills are reinforced with daily seatwork, including phonics seatwork books, penmanship worksheets, and other classroom support materials that review the concepts taught in phonics instruction. The language, history, and science worktexts support the phonics foundation learned in reading. Even the words used in spelling lessons follow the phonics rules that students have learned. In this way, all materials in the lower elementary curriculum are correlated to build upon the phonics foundation.
I have compared A Beka Christian readers with secular
readers for several grade levels and they are light-years apart. Secular readers are basically situational in nature which leads to situation ethics. Many texts are a collection of fables from around the world, often talking about gods and goddesses. In the lower elementary grades the stories are nonsense stories. In short, they dont teach anything. After reading them I was hard-pressed to even remember what I read. In contrast, Christian stories are unashamedly Christian in nature and students learn something of value. These texts help the student grow intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually. They teach character, values, patriotism, respect for authority, they point students to Christ, etc. Because they are inspirational in nature they can be read several times and enjoyed each time for the moral they teach.
Donna Wyeth Thibodeau, M.Ed., C.G.R.S.
Reading Program Goals and Objectives
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Decode the written language easily.
Read with interest and comprehension. Read the Bible with understanding. Appreciate and enjoy good literature. Spell correctly. Develop good character traits. Acquire a large speaking and listening vocabulary. Recall facts easily. Write grammatically correct stories and poems. Read for knowledge and pleasure.
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thinking skills. Teaches students to become independent readers. Begins all students on the road to successful reading through intensive phonics instruction. Supplies an abundance of reading material. Incorporates Bible reading and patriotic character-building stories. Contains many of delightful classics from the storehouse of childrens literature. Involves parents in the reading success of their children. Provides Teacher Editions and Curriculum Guides that suggest methods of integrating the language arts program.
Program Highlights
I have followed your curriculum for many years
because my children are in a Christian school that follows your curriculum. I have been very impressed by what I have seen and extremely happy with my sons progress in reading. He is about two to three years higher than his counterparts in the public school system. Illinois
Suggested Grade Chart
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Support Materials
Little Books (110)
Little Owl Books
Old MacDonalds Farm
Tip
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Wig on a Pig
Matt
Pet Pete
Mikes Coat
A Pal
Basic Phonics Sounds CD
Blend Practice Cards A Phonics Charts and Games Blend Ladders Letter-Picture Flashcards Large Alphabet Flashcards Miniature Alphabet Flashcards One-Vowel Word Cards Felt Upper- and Lower-Case Alphabet ABC-123 ABC Writing Tablet Writing with Phonics K4 Curriculum Guide
K5
Handbook for Reading
Story Tree Treasure Chest Hidden Treasure No Longer A Nobody Paths of Gold Sunshine Meadows Silver Sails Open Skies Growing Up Where Jesus Lived All Kinds of Animals Primary Bible Reader Handbook for Reading Paths to Adventure Footprints Swiss Family Robinson Crossroads Better Bridges Pilgrim Boy Secret in the Maple Tree Worlds of Wonder Doors to Discovery Pilgrims Progress Simplified Read and Think Skill Sheets 3 Salute to Courage Liberty Tree Flags Unfurled Trails to Explore Adventures in Other Lands Read & Think Skill Sheets 4 Song of the Brook Saved at Sea
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Reading Record Cards
Teacher Editions Curriculum Guide
Grade 5 Reading Record Cards Beyond the Horizon Teacher Editions Windows to the World Curriculum Guide Of America I Adventures in Nature Read & Comprehend Skill Sheets 5 Rosa Noah Webster
Letters and Sounds 1 & Key
Student Test Book & Key Writing with Phonics 1 Large Phonics Teaching Charts Basic Phonics Charts Basic Phonics Flashcards Clue Word Cards Basic Phonics Sounds CD Blend Practice Cards A, B Large Alphabet Flashcards Teacher Editions Curriculum Guide
Large Phonics Teaching Charts
Basic Phonics Charts Basic Phonics Flashcards Clue Word Cards Basic Phonics Sounds CD Teacher Editions Curriculum Guide
Grade 4
Grade 1
Letters and Sounds 2 & Key
Student Test Book & Key Writing with Phonics 2 Large Phonics Teaching Charts Basic Phonics Charts Basic Phonics Flashcards Clue Word Cards Basic Phonics Sounds CD Blend Practice Cards B Large Alphabet Flashcards Teacher Editions Curriculum Guide
Grade 3
Basic Phonics Sounds CD
My Blend and Word Book Basic Phonics Charts I Learn to Read, Book A Basic Phonics Flashcards I Learn to Read, Book B Clue Word Cards I Learn to Read, Book C Blend Practice Cards A, B I Learn to Read, Book D Phonics Charts and Games I Do Read, Book 1 Blend Ladders I Do Read, Book 2 Letter-Picture Flashcards I Do Read, Book 3 Large Alphabet Flashcards I Do Read, Book 4 Miniature Alphabet Flashcards I Can Read Well, Book 1 Felt Upper- and Lower-Case Alphabet I Can Read Well, Book 2 One-Vowel Word Cards I Can Read Well, Book 3 Alphabet Fun Stories I Can Read Well, Book 4 Letters and Sounds K Big Owl Books (4) Kindergarten Writing Tablet
Our Week Writing with Phonics K5
The Little Pie Curriculum Guide
Jesus Helps
The Big Green Bird Reading for Fun Enrichment Library Handbook for Reading Fun with Pets Tiptoes Stepping Stones Secrets and Surprises The Bridge Book Animals in the Great Outdoors Kind and Brave Aesops Fables Strong and True Primary Bible Reader Down by the Sea
Support Materials
Grade 6 Mountain Pathways Reading Record Cards Voyage of Discovery Teacher Editions Of America II Curriculum Guide Adventures in Greatness Reading Comprehension Skill Sheets 6 Billy Sunday Message of the Mountain
